John Boskamp
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Jan Boskamp is not yet impressed by the Orange’s game at the World Cup in Qatar. The team of national coach Louis van Gaal finished first in the group, but did not sparkle.
Boskamp knows what needs to change: he would have liked to see Xavi Simons make his debut against Qatar. “I had given him half an hour. You can see that the guy has trained with world stars such as Messi and Mbappé at Barcelona and Paris-Saint-Germain,” says the analyst in The Importance of Limburg. He thinks that Simons can immediately add something to the Orange: “He thinks faster than the rest. The game is so easy for him.”
Boskamp is anything but enthusiastic about the game of Orange. “Constantly that annoying ball wide. These 90 minutes, or was it 96, lasted so long. It gave me pain in my Rotterdam head,” said the former footballer, who still hoped for a revival against Qatar after the 1-0 . “Nothing came of it. To save as much energy as possible, that’s called. What a load of bullshit.”
